Original and exhilarating work that demands to be read again
Sunday Times
The greatest novel written in our time, one of the great books of the century
- Susan Sontag,
One of the most important novels of our time
Times Literary Supplement
The monumental event of recent Hungarian history, the fated uprising of 1956, is accounted for in the most affecting manner imaginable in these haunted pages
Daily Telegraph
What makes this <i>Book of Memories</i> so memorable is the sheer quality of the prose, its subtlety and intelligence, which shines through what seems an elegant and unobtrusively American translation
The Times